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Churchill: Introducing The Dr. E. Conyers O'Bryan Collection Of Winston Churchill, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Churchill: Introducing The Dr. E. Conyers O'Bryan Collection Of Winston Churchill, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This brochure lists selected items from the Winston Churchill Collection built by E. Conyers O'Bryan, M.D., of Florence, SC. When Dr. O'Bryan donated the collection to the University of South Carolina, in 2009, it was with the wish that "hundreds of people could have the opportunity to see and use" the collection, and so learn about Churchill "who I regard as the most important man of his century." The O'Bryan Collection includes more than 80 volumes of Churchill's writings (many first editions, specially-bound copies, or inscribed copies), together with books from Churchill's library at Chartwell, artwork, and memorabilia, including a …
The G. Ross Roy Collection Of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalog, Elizabeth Sudduth
The G. Ross Roy Collection Of Robert Burns: An Illustrated Catalog, Elizabeth Sudduth
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Established in 1989, the G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns and Burnsiana at the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library is one of the world's foremost collections dedicated to the study of Scotland's greatest poet. Of the approximately six thousand items described in this catalogue, the largest sections are works by Burns and items of Burnsiana. These include not only separate editions of the poet's major works but also editions with distinctive bindings and variants. Among the notable highlights is one of only two known first-edition copies of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1799) and the only one …
Scholarly Communication In The Sciences, From Tycho Brahe To The Cdc, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Scholarly Communication In The Sciences, From Tycho Brahe To The Cdc, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit of documents which focus on 400 years of scholarly communication, showing how scientists have used print culture to document their activities, disseminate information, and share discoveries. The increasing professionalization of science can be seen in examples of publishing from the early 16th century to the present day. In the late medieval and early modem periods, science and the dissemination of scientific research was generally an informal, gentlemanly pursuit. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it changed into an increasingly rigorous and organized practice, with growing standards for verification, inclusion, and publication.
Scottie Fitzgerald: The Stewardship Of Literary Memory, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina)
Scottie Fitzgerald: The Stewardship Of Literary Memory, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina)
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The emphasis of this exhibition and its catalogue is on Scottie Fitzgerald as executrix of her parents' literary properties and as reluctant literary historian. The heavily illustrated catalogue begins with an overview of Scottie's life and her relationship to her parents and to their literary legacy, then the exhibited items are listed by topic: Childhood & Education, Scottie & F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scottie's Writings on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scottie as Literary Executrix, Collaboration with Matthew J. Bruccoli, Scottie's Other Writings, and Scottie and the Matthew J. Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The catalog ends with a bibliography, Scottie Fitzgerald's …
Modern American Fine Printing And Contemporary Book Arts, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Modern American Fine Printing And Contemporary Book Arts, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit of a range of contemporary fine printing and book arts from North American presses held in the collections of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The department also holds extensive collections of British fine printing from a range of presses such as Strawberry Hill, Kelmscott, Vale, Eragny, Doves, etc. The items in the collections are used to support the teaching mission of the department in book arts and printing history.
Hugh Macdiarmid & Friends, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Hugh Macdiarmid & Friends, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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The items listed in this catalogue were almost all taken from the G. Ross Roy Collection of the University of South Carolina's Special Libraries Division. While particular attention was paid to works entirely by MacDiarmid in the selection of works to be displayed, the Roy Collection is rich also in works edited by MacDiarmid, or to which he wrote introductions or contributed essays or poems. It contains virtually the whole of the MacDiarmid canon, with significant variant issues of major works. and two important series of presentation inscriptions of books presented by MacDiarmid to his wife, Valda Trevlyn, and to …
Napoleon, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Napoleon, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the small exhibit of books and other items pertaining to Napoleon maintained by Rare Books and Special Collections. South Carolina College library actively collected books throughout the years when Napoleon was Emperor and in the years after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Many of the items on display were bought on publication for the college library as new works illustrating current world affairs. Others come from a group of books about Napoleon donated by Mrs. Donald Saunders and from the Alfred Chapin Rogers Collection.
Introducing The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection Of John Milton, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Introducing The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection Of John Milton, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit which displays a portion of the Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton. The breath of Milton's own interests and the international and chronological range of those who have responded to him are highlighted in this exhibit. Among the items on display are early illustrated editions of Paradise Lost, books that influenced Milton, contemporary reaction to Milton, Milton as a political thinker, Milton and his illustrators, as well as those relating to Milton as a poet, and the growth of his influence.
William Blake: Visionary & Illustrator, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
William Blake: Visionary & Illustrator, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This brochure describes a Department of Rare Books & Special Collections exhibit of materials relating to William Blake. The exhibit charted Blake’s development chronologically through both sides of his activity, from his earliest known work as an apprentice engraver in the 1770’s through the extraordinary originality of his political and prophetic poems in the 1790’s and early 1800’s, and the deep emotion of the later illustrations he prepared for Edward Young’s poem Night Thoughts (1796-97) and Robert Blair’s The Grave (1808). The original editions of many of the books for which Blake prepared engravings were acquired by the South Carolina …
John James Audubon & Ornithological Illustration Exhibition, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
John James Audubon & Ornithological Illustration Exhibition, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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Among the greatest treasures of the antebellum South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) was its set of Audubon's huge double-elephant folio Birds of America, published in parts between 1827 and 1838, and purchased by the South Carolina state legislature for the College. Fewer than 130 complete sets, with all 435 plates, now survive. In addition to its main archival set of Birds of America, USC’s Thomas Cooper Library bas received numerous donations of significant items to its Audubon collections over the years. The exhibition traces the development of bird illustration, to give a context for …
Leaves Of Grass At 150, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Leaves Of Grass At 150, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This booklet accompanied the exhibit which marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass (1855). The items on display were drawn chiefly from the Thomas Cooper Library's Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century Literature, and this booklet records the arrangement and explanatory text of the exhibit as actually mounted. The exhibit is arranged chronologically, to show the growth and development of Whitman's poetry, and the effects on his books of his own close involvement in their production. Included are all the major editions in the development of Leaves of Grass, from two variants of …
The End Of World War Ii: A Commemorative Exhibition From Rare Books And Special Collections, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
The End Of World War Ii: A Commemorative Exhibition From Rare Books And Special Collections, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. This catalog accompanied the exhibit which documents the end of the war in Europe and Asia using resources in Rare Books and Special Collections. Several collections that either focus on the war or have significant connections to the war years are highlighted.
Tennis: The Story Of A Sport - An Exhibition Celebrating The William D. Haggard Iii Tennis Collection, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Tennis: The Story Of A Sport - An Exhibition Celebrating The William D. Haggard Iii Tennis Collection, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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The William D. Haggard III Tennis Collection brought to Thomas Cooper Library its first major collection of rare books about sports history. This exhibition tells the story of tennis over the past seven centuries, beginning with a first edition of the first book about tennis (1555). The earlier cases illustrate the development of tennis from its medieval origins in cloister and royal palace, through its central role in the Renaissance and pre-Revolutionary France. The second half of the exhibition follows the reshaping of tennis in France, England, and America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-2005): A Bicentennial Selection, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-2005): A Bicentennial Selection, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit of a sample of the author’s works held by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The representative selection of materials contained books from the library’s Historical Children’s Literature Collection and the Augusta Baker Collection of African-American Children’s Literature and Folklore. It included examples of some of the first English translations of Andersen’s writings, as well as several of his classic fairy tales and materials exhibiting the ways in which nineteenth- and twentieth-century children’s book illustrators reacted to and interpreted the text.
Down To The Seas, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Down To The Seas, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This is the first exhibition from Thomas Cooper Library 's G. Ross Roy Collection of John Masefield, which was donated in 1999. Highlights include a copy in Masefield's own hand of his best-known poem, "Sea Fever," and a number of inscribed copies from the library of Audrey Napier-Smith in which Masefield painted small water-colour sketches of sailing ships or other scenes. Place of publication is London unless otherwise stated; + indicates a book with a water-colour or pen sketch.
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection At The Unversity Of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalog, Elizabeth Sudduth
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection At The Unversity Of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalog, Elizabeth Sudduth
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The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina was established in 1997 by Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli and named for Professor Bruccoli's father. It is an expansive research archive for the literary, historical, and cultural aspects of World War I from the vantages of many of the combatant nations, holding more than 4,000 items, including 3,400 print materials comprising military training manuals, illustrated wartime magazines, trench newspapers, novels and poetry of the war, letters, diaries, postcards, scrapbooks, photo albums, and glass slides. The collection also includes some 500 pieces of sheet music and more …
Leaves Of Grass At 150, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Leaves Of Grass At 150, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This exhibit celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, arguably the most important and well-known book of verse in American literary history. This exhibit showcases the fine Whitman collection at the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library, drawing both from earlier holdings in Special Collections and, more extensively. from the Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth Century American Literature. Other items are on loan from Prof. Myerson's personal collection and, in one notable instance from, the collection of USC Prof. G. Ross Roy. The central part of this catalogue lists for the …
Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit of William Faulkner material from the collections of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The exhibit celebrated the library's acquisition of the suite of original etchings by prominent artist Boyd Saunders which are based on Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury. In conjunction with the exhibit, the library's Thomas Cooper Society hosted talks by three expert visitors: Dr. Paul Ragan, Professor Boyd Saunders, and the Faulkner scholar Professor James B. Meriwether. Also included in this exhibit were original sketches and copper plates on loan from Professor Saunders.
Emergence Of Mexico - An Exhibition Chiefly From The Books Of The South Carolina College Library, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Emergence Of Mexico - An Exhibition Chiefly From The Books Of The South Carolina College Library, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied an exhibit of illustrated books and maps about Mexico from the 16th century through to the late 19th century. The exhibit documented the gradual process by which the cultures of pre-Columbian Mexico were described and published in Spain, in rival European countries, in Mexico itself, and in the United States. Most of the books on display had been in the USC library since the 1830s and 1840s.
John Hersey: A Collection Of First Editions, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
John Hersey: A Collection Of First Editions, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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The exhibit accompanied by this catalog was mounted to display the collection of John Hersey first editions assembled by Harry E. Hootman, the 2003 winner of the Thomas Cooper Society Student Book Collecting Award.
Printing And The Renaissance World, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Printing And The Renaissance World, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit which illustrated the development and impact of printing, from Johann Gutenberg's mid-fifteenth century invention in Germany of moveable type, through its effects for the Renaissance in classical learning, for the Reformation in religion, for science and geography during the age of exploration, and (more briefly) for illustration, science, and literature. Among the items on display are an illuminated medieval manuscript codex from c. 1420; an early printed book from 1483, with hand-colored initials, and its original wooden binding; a wood-engraving by the German artist Albrecht Durer; a leaf from the 1611 first edition of the …
Chaucer And The Canterbury Tales, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Chaucer And The Canterbury Tales, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit of materials from the University of South Carolina’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, which featured original material alongside modern high-quality reproductions of the most important of the Chaucer manuscripts and of the early printed editions of his work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Bicentenary Exhbition, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Bicentenary Exhbition, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit and provides a permanent record of the Ralph Waldo Emerson bicentenary exhibition at the Thomas Cooper Library. Among the items in this exhibit are manuscripts, letters, first editions, association copies and memorabilia. On display are only a relatively small number of items which are in the Emerson holdings in the larger collection, but make clear the range, depth and quality of the outstanding materials that the Myerson Collection contains.
Charles Darwin & The Galapagos, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Charles Darwin & The Galapagos, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog outlines an exhibit drawn chiefly from the C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin, and includes materials on the history of European exploration of the Galapagos, Darwin’s tenure on the islands, and the legacy of his discoveries.
Duncan Glen & Akros: Forty Years Of A Scottish Press, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Duncan Glen & Akros: Forty Years Of A Scottish Press, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalogue records the first major exhibition outside Scotland about one of the most influential of modem Scottish literary publishers, Akros Publications, and its founder, Duncan Glen. Professor Glen, a graphic designer as well as poet and publisher, issued his first hand printed publication just forty years ago. Since then he has published over 300 separate items by many of the best known Scottish writers, in a variety of strikingly-designed and colorful publication formats. Thomas Cooper Library has, as part of the Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns & Scottish Poetry, the fullest Akros collection in the U.S. The current …
Architects & Antiquities, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Architects & Antiquities, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit of illustrated architectural books from the collections of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The exhibit focused on the career of South Carolina architect Robert Mills (1781-1855), now best-known as architect of the Washington Monument. Several of the titles were among those that Mills himself listed as influencing his development as an architect, while other represented the major schools of architectural influence from which he drew his work.
Transcendentalists & Friends, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Transcendentalists & Friends, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog accompanied the exhibit which displays a portion of the Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-century American Literature. It brings to the library comprehensive collections of first editions for Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), Theodore Parker (1810-1860), Walt Whitman (1819-1892), and Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), along with manuscripts, letters, proofs, later and posthumous editions, and associated scholarship. With these core collections are smaller collections for lesser-known writers of the Transcendentalist movement, such as Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), significant groups of early editions from other writers of the period such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson and Louisa May …
Audubon And Others, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Audubon And Others, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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Among the greatest treasures of the antebellum South Carolina College was its complete set of Audubon's huge double-elephant folio Birds of America (435 plates), published in parts between 1828 and 1838. The current exhibition traces the development of bird illustration, to give a context for viewing Audubon's achievement. The exhibition is arranged chronologically, starting with European bird illustrations of the sixteenth century and concluding with Audubon and other nineteenth century illustrators.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935 - An Exhibit Welcoming The Third International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935 - An Exhibit Welcoming The Third International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This brochure accompanied the exhibit of works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman which was installed to welcome the Third International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference (March 30-April 3, 2001), an official USC Bicentennial Event. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), now best known for her story The Yellow Wallpaper, was also internationally recognized in her lifetime for her writing and lecturing in the fields of sociology and economics. All the books on display were drawn from the Gilman holdings in the Department of Rare Books & Special Collections.
Early Geology Books, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
Early Geology Books, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina
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This catalog is based on items displayed in early March 2001, for a class visit by Professor Pradeep Talwani’s undergraduate honors-college course in Solid Earth Geology. Most of the books have been in the library since the early 19th century, and some were among the books of Thomas Cooper (1759-1839), professor of chemistry and second president of South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina). These earlier acquisitions have been joined by items of geological interest in the C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin & Darwinana, donated to the library in 1996.